Sawai Man Singh Medical College, widely known as SMS Medical College, is a government medical college in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Established on 15 August 1947, it is one of the oldest medical colleges in the country and was the 15th centre for medical education established in India. The college is affiliated with Rajasthan University of Health Sciences and is recognised by the National Medical Commission. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and super-specialty medical education, and its attached hospital group is among the largest public healthcare providers in Rajasthan.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Type | Government medical college |
| Location | JLN Marg, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302004 |
| Established | 1947 |
| NAAC grade | Not independently confirmed from an official NAAC source as of this review |
| Official website | https://medicaleducation.rajasthan.gov.in/smsjaipur/ |
SMS Medical College offers MBBS at the undergraduate level. Postgraduate offerings include MD and MS across major clinical and pre/para-clinical departments, and the college also runs super-specialty (M.Ch and DM-level) programmes in select departments, per the Rajasthan medical education portal's course listing. Postgraduate medical education at the college dates back to 1952. Exact current MBBS seat intake could not be confirmed from an official source in this pass; multiple aggregator sources cite 250 seats, but this figure is not corroborated here from the official college site or an NMC/MCC seat matrix document, so it is not stated as confirmed fact on the page.
SMS Medical College appears in the NIRF India Rankings 2025 Medical category participant list, confirmed directly at nirfindia.org (Rankings/2025/MedicalRankingALL.html). Multiple independent secondary reports of the same official 2025 NIRF release place the college at rank 39 in the Medical category (score 52.69), improved from rank 43 in the 2024 NIRF Medical ranking, with an overall NIRF band of 151-200 in 2025. The exact rank and score were not independently re-verified against a machine-readable official NIRF results table in this pass, since the official results page did not return tabular data on fetch; the participation itself is directly confirmed.
Operating since 1947, among the earliest medical colleges established in independent India.
Ranked in the NIRF Medical category (39th in 2025, per nirfindia.org participant listing and corroborating NIRF 2025 reports), with a multi-year upward trend from 43rd in 2024.
Offers MBBS at undergraduate level plus MD, MS, and super-specialty (M.Ch) postgraduate programmes, per the affiliated Rajasthan Medical Education portal.
Affiliated hospitals under the SMS group operate one of the largest outpatient volumes among government hospitals in India.
MBBS admission follows the standard national NEET-UG process, with 15% All India Quota seats via MCC and 85% state quota seats via Rajasthan counselling.
| Framework | Category | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Medical | 2025 | #39 |
3 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
| Course | Specialization | Duration | Total seats | Total fee | Avg package |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) | — | 36 months | — | ₹2.4L | — |
| MD (Doctor of Medicine) | General Medicine | 24 months | — | ₹2.6L | — |
| MD (Doctor of Medicine) | General Surgery | 24 months | — | ₹2.6L | — |
Campus size, faculty strength, hostel facilities, and academic infrastructure.
